Please Stop Making Me Hate The Simpsons

[Not G. Ivingname]

Here is one you missed from a bit earlier: Animanaics.

It was for the first season it was on Fox Kids, but they dropped it in fear of money and success. Thankfully Warner Brothers figured out they could of just put it onto their own kid's network, Kid's WB...

And proceded to only release one season that had more then 10 episodes

 

[viciouspen]

Amen, to all of it.

I think the highest crime would have to be Firefly being cancelled though.
Fairly certain that people will literally burn in hell for that. God himself looked down and went "WTF?!?!".

I still hold hope in my heart that somehow Firefly will be brought back to SciFi or something (yes i know it's spelled Syfy now but I refuse to use that it's stupid).

 

[LitleWaffle]

anc[is]Simpsons is still funny. I don't get why people are always saying it's getting worse. I have become very much aware of how much I fucking hate Lisa, but homer still says dumb stuff and the jokes are funny. Arrested development was shit though

I guess it is still okay, but compared to the under a decade seasons...

I don't think I can honestly compare them, actually.

 

[guyroxorz]

Anyone else annoyed by the fact the author misspelled cancelled throughout the article?

 

[CK76]

Agreed, and I'll add Titus and Andy Richter Controls the Universe.

 

[sargonas]

I cried a bit when firefly got the boot, still one of the best syfy shows of all time.

 

[sargonas]

I cried a bit when firefly got the boot, still one of the best syfy shows of all time.

 

[Lerxst]

Ok, let me say a few things, yes the writing dropped in quality for the simpsons but saying "The simpsons suck, ban nao plz!!!!1!!!" isn't going to make us take you seriously, secondly, WTH is that clip from the tick, That's NOT from the tick, now THIS is from the Tick.

Actually FOX got a double-play with that one. First they canceled the cartoon and next they canceled the live-action show. The cartoon a.k.a. the real Tick, was one of the best things to happen to TV (I'd have to say the live-action... well.. sucked) Well Firefly might tie for that position though, of course!

 

[theevilsanta]

Meh, I hated the Simpsons after an episode that aired maybe four years ago where it essentially stereotyped the Entire US Army, not just a few individuals, as a group of semi-retarded gun nuts. Not even Family Guy does that.

Anyway, as far as I'm concerned any good TV series has at most three good seasons in it, anything afterwards is just derivative, if not entertaining.

Edit: Primetime is 8-9 pm eastern, essentially. Let's see whose primetime is more interesting and in general good for humanity...

ABC: Super Nanny. What Would You Do? Extreme Makeover. Desperate Housewives. Skating with the Stars. Modern Family.

CBS: Big Bang Theory, Shit my Dad Says, CSI, The Mentalist, How I Met your Mother, NCIS

NBC: Community, 30 Rock, The Office, Minute to Win It, The Biggest Loser, Chase, Dateline

FOX: House, Lie to Me, Glee, Fringe, Bones, The Simpsons, Family Guy

Which would you rather watch? Fox is the best network right now for awesomely cool stuff, even if it sucks right now. Hate, but hate the other three more.

 

[WolfThomas]

Wholy crap! Live action tick? Man I never knew this existed/was canceled. Now I'm both happy and sad.

 

[DPunch4]

If I had millions of dollars, I'd use it all if I could get one more season of firefly.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

im just glad they brought back futurama, that shows funny as hell. its also more mature humour but still good for kids to watch.

cant wait for more new episodes.

 

[Baldr]

I think you miss the whole point of network television. It not how good the shows are, it is how many people watch them.

 

[SomEngangVar]

Thank you for remembering The Critic. It's one of my favorite shows and I have to stay up until three thirty in the morning to watch it on tv here(something which I gladly do).

 

[loc978]

A single tear rolls down my cheek for Seymour the dog... but there's a bitter flood here for the Hero of Canton...

 

[JMPease21]

same here.

oh, how much I love futurama and hate Fox...

 

[CrystalShadow]

This reminds me of what Channel 9 in Australia was doing with Farscape.

Now, for some reason that I can't quite verify, I get the feeling Fox had a hand in this. But of Course, Farscape was a US/Australian Co-production.

Regardless, it fell victim to precisely the same kind of rubbish as all the series you've mentioned here...
So, yeah.

 

[MissAshley]

Heh, I've never seen Arrested Development, Firefly, or The Tick. I hardly give live-action series a look (even if based on a comic). . .

Okay, now I want an apology, Elizabeth.

Why isn't King of the Hill on this list? I know it's in syndication on FOX, but that doesn't change the fact that the show was indeed canceled. And we're talking about a show that managed to grow a soul during the same period of time The Simpsons lost much of its own.

More than any other series cancellation in your list, I feel King of the Hill's cancellation as the hardest "slap in the face" from FOX.

 

[tautologico]

I liked the Simpsons, thought it was good, if not really great. I was not a huge fan and I'm not usually affected that much by nostalgia.

This week I was zapping at the TV and watched some minutes of a recent episode (on Fox, don't know if it was the most recent season). In the time I watched there were about 5 or 6 jokes. All of them horrible, stupid and utterly unfunny. I really don't know how a show can get so bad.

 

[Jeronus]

The grand dad Simpson
The father Family guy
The son American dad

Where does the Cleveland Show fall in?